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Imagining Numbers
Hardcover edition
Author
Barry Mazur
Language
English
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
January 1, 2003
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print
Pages
270 pp.
ISBN
978-0374174699
Imagining Numbers: (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is a 2003 popular mathematics book by mathematician Barry Mazur[1]
The aim of the book is not a history of imaginary numbers but an attempt to
re-create, in ourselves, the shift of mathematical thought that makes it possible to imagine these numbers.[2]
The book was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
^"Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". goodreads.com. Retrieved 2014-12-30.
^Heawood, Jonathan (18 May 2003). "Observer review: Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-08-17 – via www.theguardian.com.
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